Sporting Events to Bet on

Although golf online betting is entering a slow stretch as the year winds down, there are plenty of other sporting events that will keep sports fans who are into online sports betting in Australia occupied. The MLB is now in the exciting post-season while the NBA is just about to begin another year. Then for cricket fans, the Ashes series is just around the corner. If you want some fighting action, there's the upcoming boxing matches that features the biggest names in the sport. Then there's soccer with some of the best leagues already playing ball. Oh, and there's the NFL that has just started their season. What more can a you ask for?

The First Day of NBA Season

There's a good and bad for the first day of the NBA season. The good is that fans can finally see their team play again after months of break. The bad is that most teams are usually sloppy during the start of the season. However, both cases add to the uncertainty and the excitement of games.

It is safe to say that the first day of an NBA regular season offers the unpredictability that makes betting even more exciting.  So if you want to join the thrill, mark October 29 on your calendar. There are three matches for that day, each featuring a contender for the next year's finals. The Indiana Pacers will play against the rebuilding Orlando Magic, the Miami Heat against the Chicago Bulls with their best player being back and the Los Angeles duel between the Clippers and Lakers.

Post Trade: Memphis Grizzlies

Is it weird when one of the top online bookmakers Australia has focuses its attention on the NBA scene? You don’t really think that Australian bookmakers online are just all about Australian Rules football right?

Well look at here, another installment on the post-trade look on one of the NBA teams worth looking at. The Grizzlies who are currently sitting at the number four spot on the western conference is surely worth looking at.

A few weeks before the trade deadline last February, the Memphis Grizzlies already made a significant change up in its roster. The resulting trade sent Rudy Gay and Hamed Haddadi away to the Toronto Raptors and drawing in Tayshaun Prince, Austin Daye and Ed Davis. Let’s be frank here, the only names worth talking about in this trade is Gay and Prince.

Although always had his inconsistencies, his ability to create shots on his own makes him an integral part of the offense of Grizzlies when set plays don’t go as planned. He is a decent defender, no matter what stats may say, making his man work for shots. However, Prince is a better defender than Gay. So the concern here was about plugging the hole in the offense that the trading away of Gay has left.

Obviously, Prince isn’t a player who’s good at creating his own shot. Still, a system player, the Grizzlies have gambled on Prince to play well in sets enough that there won’t be need for a Gay-like player. So how’s it gone so far?

The Grizzlies are 9-2 since the trade. Not too shabby John Hollinger.

The Unraveling Brooklyn Nets

At the start of the season, the Nets changed their address from New Jersey to Brooklyn with the official unraveling of the Barclays Center Arena. Half a season later, the Brooklyn nets are unraveling again, in a disappointing kind of way. If you've been tuning into online sports betting sites, you know that the Nets have been very inconsistent for the part of the season. A hot start for the season showed a bright future ahead. Then a month of slump with a seemingly uninspired offense resulted to Avery Johnson getting kicked out of his coaching position. When PJ Carlesimo took over as coach, they started playing like a rejuvenated team. A month later, they are going back to their lackluster plays and confusing everyone in the realm of online sports betting sites.

So what is exactly wrong with the Brooklyn Nets? Well, just to get it out of the topic, these are not mood swings. 

Defensively, the Nets are not that bad of a team. That makes us look into the offense of the team. If you’ve watched the team since the beginning of the season, not much has really changed for the team’s offense coupled with minor tweaks in the rotations.

The bottom line is that the team’s offense is terrible. They don’t call out and make plays that give them the best shots as much as possible. Most of the time, they take the most convenient shots, and those are shooting long jump shots in front of defenders. It’s fine if the shots are going in, but they are inconsistent with those shots and the team is as inconsistent as those. If you noticed, they pile up leads when they deliberately take the ball inside. Whether it’s their front court scoring or passing out for a better shot outside, forcing the ball inside should be the primary intention of the play.

Another reason for the team’s lackluster performance is Derron Williams, but we’ll get to it in another post. Anyway, if you’re looking to bet on NBA games from the land down under, check out the sports bet Australia.